Description

This track shows gene predictions using the N-SCAN gene structure prediction software provided by the Computational Genomics Lab at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.

Methods

N-SCAN combines biological-signal modeling in the target genome sequence along with information from a multiple-genome alignment to generate de novo gene predictions. It extends the TWINSCAN target-informant genome pair to allow for an arbitrary number of informant sequences as well as richer models of sequence evolution. N-SCAN models the phylogenetic relationships between the aligned genome sequences, context-dependent substitution rates, insertions, and deletions.

Human N-SCAN uses mouse (mm7) as the informant and iterative pseudogene masking.

Credits

Thanks to Michael Brent's Computational Genomics Group at Washington University St. Louis for providing this data.

Special thanks for this implementation of N-SCAN to Aaron Tenney in the Brent lab, and Robert Zimmermann, currently at Max F. Perutz Laboratories in Vienna, Austria.

References

Gross SS, Brent MR. Using multiple alignments to improve gene prediction. In Proc. 9th Int'l Conf. on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB '05):374-388 and J Comput Biol. 2006 Mar;13(2):379-93.

Korf I, Flicek P, Duan D, Brent MR. Integrating genomic homology into gene structure prediction. Bioinformatics. 2001 Jun 1;17(90001)S140-8.

van Baren MJ, Brent MR. Iterative gene prediction and pseudogene removal improves genome annotation. Genome Res. 2006 May;16(5):678-85.